4,591 Quotes About Past


  • Author Eric Ries
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    Sustainable growth is characterized by one simple rule: New customers come from the actions of past customers.

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  • Author Ernest Renan
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    To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together; to wish to do greater; these are the essential conditions which make up a people

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  • Author Gene Roddenberry
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    Why are we now going into space? Well, why did we trouble to look past the next mountain? Our prime obligation to ourselves is to make the unknown known. We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are.

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  • Author Harry Reid
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    The president is now having to deal with a Congress. He's never had to do that before. The president in the past, he has just done whatever he wanted. He had a big rubberstamp here up on Capitol Hill, whatever he wanted, they stamped OK. That's not the way it is now.

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  • Author Hassan Rouhani
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    If America puts the enmity aside, if it initiates good will, and if it compensates for the past, the future situation between the United States and Iran will change.

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  • Author Henry Rollins
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    I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.

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  • Author Henry Rollins
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    Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.

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